[Development] Qt 5 for Android developer mailing list

[Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt]

On 01/09/2013 09:12 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Paul Olav Tvete <paul.tvete at digia.com 
> <mailto:paul.tvete at digia.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'll try once more: We have identified the need for a dedicated
>     channel of
>     communication for a new project with a rather tight deadline. We
>     would like
>     that channel to be publicly visible so that that others can follow
>     what we do.
>
>
> To be honest I am reluctant to this mentality of not caring about 
> others like me who do not wish to subscribe to many mailing lists.

Hi, Laszlo.

I understand that a single mailing list is most convenient for the 
people who want to casually follow all Qt development or all mobile Qt 
development, but for those of us who will be working on this for eight 
hours every day, we need a clear channel of communication with more 
persistence than IRC. If I were to treat all mails in 
development at qt-project.org as potentially mission-critical, this would 
cause too many disruptions to my work. This is about finding a way for 
us to manage our project so that we can work efficiently, respond 
quickly, protect ourselves from distractions, etc. etc. In my 
experience, having a dedicated mailing list and a dedicated IRC channel 
is a big convenience and will reduce the risk of failure. That is the 
main priority.

But communicating in the open to involve everyone who's interested in 
the project is also of a very high priority. To me, using qt-project.org 
as an umbrella seemed like the logical choice for this, as it would be 
easy to find for the target audience. If this is not acceptable to the 
Qt Project community, however, I would rather look for an alternative 
public mailing list option rather than using one internal to Digia. The 
comment about having private mails with huge CC-lists was a reference to 
the ad hoc-solution which often occurs naturally in projects with tight 
schedules where this problem of having a clear channel of communication 
has not been solved in some other way initially.

Note that I would consider this mailing list as temporary and it will 
exist to facilitate this project. We could make the naming reflect this, 
perhaps? When the Qt 5 Android port is mature and development is no 
longer as focused, I don't believe there will be any need for a 
dedicated list. At this point, the list can be closed (or just phased 
out), and any Android-related issues can be addressed to the main 
development mailing list, same as for any other topics.

> Do I care about mobile platforms? Yes.
> Do I wish to maintain many bubbles separately? No.

There's really nothing preventing you from filtering these mailing list 
messages into the same IMAP folder. Adding a second mailing list is a 
compromise which considers both your wishes as well as the wishes of the 
project team and the wishes of the people who do not want to read mails 
about Android. Having everything in the same list is less flexible and 
accounts for the requirements of fewer people, so if your concern is 
caring about others, then I think having a dedicated list is more 
appropriate.

-- Eskil
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